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What I want to do is to look at redemptive living from the standpoint
of those who want to work with God; not when we resist and not
when we try to do our own thing and not when we seek our own will
or glory but when we choose to glorify God. 1 Corinthians
6:19&20, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the
Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you
are not your own? For you have been bought with a price; therefore
glorify God in your body.” The Holy Spirit lives in you and there is
a way to glorify God. 1 Corinthians 10:31, “Whether, then, you eat
or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no
offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; just as I
also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the
profit of the many, that they may be saved.”

I want to describe the redemptive life from the standpoint of those
who unite with the Lord. What I would like to show you first is the
indispensable condition of redemptive living. Then I want to show
you the indispensable disposition of redemptive living. Then I want
to show you the indispensable goal of redemptive living. If I’m
going to live redemptively, I’ve got to meet this condition and it will
lead to this goal.

What is the indispensable condition of redemptive living? I’ll state
it for you and then I’ll try to illustrate it for you. In one word, it’s
childlikeness. God demands childlikeness. Unless you are like a
child you are not going to enter. Mark 9:35-37, “And sitting down,
He called the twelve and said to them, ‘If anyone wants to be first,
he shall be last of all, and the servant of all.’ And taking a child, He
set him before them, and taking him in His arms, he said to them,
‘Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and
whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.’”
He takes a little child as an illustration.

Mark 9:42, “And whoever causes one of these little ones who
believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy
millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.”
Don’t offend a little child. Mark 10:13-16, “And they were bringing